#612 - Pete Davidson
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1 hour and 25 minutes
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200.50488
Summary
Comedian Pete Davidson joins Jemele to talk about his upcoming world tour, his love of the game Guess Who, and why he thinks there should be a Muslim version of Guess Who. Plus, he talks about his plans to go to Australia with his friend Joey Gay.
Transcript
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If you missed the Return of the Rat tour, we've added tour merch to the website.
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We've got pocket tees, hats, bags, and whatnot.
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The Bubby tees are also back in stock as well as some items from the Outdoor Collection,
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Thanks to everyone who came out and supported on this tour.
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And we've taken the tour merch that we didn't sell out there and put it onto the website
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Today's guest is a comedian and an actor out of Staten Island, New York.
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He was once a young king, and now he's a medium king.
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He's about to take on a world tour in some select cities.
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You know, this is the first time we've sat this long and gotten to really talk.
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I only watched you, and I listened to this podcast.
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No, I listened to your podcast, and I listened to this podcast called How Did This Get Made,
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They just talk about, like, movies that, like, were ridiculous, and then, like, just the math of how they got made.
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I never known him that much except just seeing him in movies and TV.
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Manzoukas is maybe, pound for pound, one of the fucking funniest human beings.
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Like, dear God, I'd be afraid to open my car door if I were him, and I wouldn't even know which way it was coming from.
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He's one of those guys that's looked like that forever, and now he's the appropriate age to look like that,
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He looks like somebody off that Muslim version of Guess Who.
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Like, and no offense, Mr. Manzoukas, if you're as funny as he says you are, you're okay with some of this.
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They should have a Muslim version of Guess Who.
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That's what I like about it is you learn a little bit.
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Well, they have a Guess Who, too, for like Twinks.
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I know there's one that's like one of these guys doesn't mind meeting other guys or whatever.
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Dude, you're going on your first international tour.
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I've never been anywhere unless it was for like work.
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It's just like I can't believe that anybody would come see me over there.
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I'm kind of like dumb where I'm like, no one knows me in, you know, Australia.
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It's me and my friend, Joey Gay, who does shows, been doing shows with me since I'm like 18.
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He's just one of those dudes that just always destroys.
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He's also been my friends, you know, since the before time.
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He looks like a little bit like Chris, like almost like Chris DiStefano and Charlemagne
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I, you know, when you get a tour schedule and you're super intimidated and you just go
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So, you know, he'll be like, yeah, you know, you can fit this one in there.
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I got a hostage facility outside of Guantanamo.
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So how do you guys feel about this Saudi Arabian Comedy Festival?
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There's been a lot of like talk about this recently.
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I'm like Googling old sets from when I was like 20.
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I mean, I have a lot where it's like you have to sift back through.
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One of them was like you could talk about sex, but like not like in a dirty way.
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I guess let's try to have a conversation about sex, but not in a dirty way.
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And they'll beat you with that stick over there.
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Remember, they killed that honky over there like 25 years ago.
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They beat this guy for doing something over there.
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The person was famously caned in Singapore as Michael Faye, an American teenager in 1994.
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Faye was sentenced by a Singaporean court to six strokes of the cane and four months in jail for acts of vandalism, specifically for spray painting and damaging cars.
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Oh, that's just a little bit of Newsome foreplay right there.
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It's sad in general, but just for like spray painting cars and stealing road signs.
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I feel like they should just, you know, cut your hand off or something.
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Some places, I guess they still have a lot of that.
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But no, what I've heard, dude, is at that Riyadh festival is that they're like, you know, there's a lot of people that say people are getting paid by this Middle Eastern money.
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You know, and that they can say this or they can't say that or that they're over there.
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They're going to try to influence you guys in order to speak certain ways.
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Do you, are you part of that conspiracy theory or is that nothing you're on?
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I've heard there's subreddits of like, I think all these people are in bed with that.
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I just, you know, I get the routing and then I see the number and I go, I'll go.
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You know, and also, you know, there's part of me that's just like, you know,
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I've been getting a little bit of a flack just because like my dad died 9-11.
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So they're like, how could you possibly go there?
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There's like this very, this is how shitty my luck is.
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There's a very famous shot that you see every 9-11 besides the obvious ones, but they were
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So, yeah, they were the first truck over there and pretty much the whole house, the whole
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Which is sad, but also, at least he died with his pals.
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Yeah, I feel like that's what Shane would say the whole time.
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Dude, he's, you're mech, you're part, you're mech Latino?
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Yeah, but I feel like our family looks mixed, but we're not.
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Well, it's crazy that he died in 9-11 and also part of him is accused of doing.
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So I think that's where you're like the, you're the fucking, you're the Bermuda Triangle of 9-11.
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Well, it is a little weird that they were the first truck there.
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He was, my memories are, you know, few and far between because I was seven, but I just
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remember laughing a lot, him being pretty jacked and smoking a lot of cigarettes and driving
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But my favorite thing is, I don't know if you have, I'm sure you do, people come to your
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shows and they're like, I knew, I don't know, your dad or I knew, I know your cousin or whatever.
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A lot of people lie to me about that just to come backstage because they know I can't
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Of course you want to hear a story about your dad.
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I could always tell who is telling the truth because the second they start talking, they
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have this big smile and their eyes kind of light up and they call him Scotty, which
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I'm sure they like keep the horrible things away.
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But I think like, yeah, just, yeah, I mean, losing your dad when you're a kid is kind
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As you get older, you want to know the different stuff about him, you know?
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Like, did he sleep in his car or whatever, you know?
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I think it's worse at your age though, because you could fully understand the scope of what
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And you're at such a pivotal age in your life where you're growing and becoming a man.
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So I didn't even really know what the fuck happened.
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Like, when I was in college, I was like, oh, I'm pretty angry about this.
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Like, it'll show up more and more as I get older, because you understand, like, that's
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But I feel like your age, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but like, that's like, that's
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My dad was set, you know, my dad was born in 1910.
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So it wasn't like I had like this, you know, dad that had this energy and, you know, I
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had this kind of dad that was like a sleeping in the distance a lot or like, you know, all
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inadvertently causing shit to have, like falling asleep in the carpool, he'd come pick me up
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and he'd fucking doze off out there, you know, and, and he, my dad had this, he was
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always buying cars off these brothers that lived around the corner, right?
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And so he had, one time he had this Cutlass that had some 22s in the trunk, some fucking
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And he would just listen to like Rush Limbaugh and shit, like on with both bass.
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And like, it would be like Paul Harvey and just like these old commentators and he would
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And whenever he dozed off his, he was old, his eyes would like leak and they would just
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like water would kind of pour out of him because you're getting old, you know, your gaskets
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And so he was just fucking just shedding water weight.
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I was prepared that things weren't going to go well.
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You know, so my dad kind of was like a driving 9-11.
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He like kind of pulls up in his own little, like I would have been awesome if that, we
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got to put my dad's car behind that fire truck.
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Every time he came in and it's something you'd have to get his fucking car doors didn't
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And the teachers would always look at you like, don't get in there.
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Yeah, but that's your parent picking you up like, but then there's little things like
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I have actually, I have his, his wedding ring that I wear all the time and I have his, it's
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actually super fucked up, but I have his badge, like his chain, his badge and they found that's
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how they, you know, because everybody was pretty burnt up.
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And I have it and I just keep it in a safe because like with my luck, I'll lose that shit.
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But, um, I have like a couple of those things and I have, uh, his, uh, his fire, his like
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I like framed them, but then I put them, I took them down though.
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Cause like sometimes I'll be feeling good and then I'll see that and I'll be like, oh,
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You know, it's like a weird, it's a weird thing.
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I remember my mom has, it's like everywhere you look, it's like, you know, my dad, like,
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But it's kind of haunting where you're just like, I would like the option.
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Like if I want to go down memory lane, I can, but like, you know, just like have your dad
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You don't want memory lane just hanging out on the wall being like, Hey, do a lap, you
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We have, I have his passport for whenever he moved to the U S where's he from?
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He came down here when I think he was like, let me see, I guess he was 12 or whatever.
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It's like a place you live on my space when you're in high school.
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Dude, I remember when I saw Kalamazoo in the airport one time, people were going there
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I thought they were like traveling in with them Dr. Seuss novel or something.
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I was like, tell Cindy Lou who I said, what's up, huh?
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Um, but yeah, I think as you get older, stuff like that's interesting.
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Were you able to find pieces of fatherhood and other men as you got older?
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But, but I, as I look back though, you know, and that was what was cool about getting into
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So everyone, the youngest, uh, comedian friend I had was like, I don't know, 29, 30.
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You know, all those guys, Giannis, Nate, um, Soder.
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And like, it was all dudes that were older than me that like, you know, obviously there's
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not, there wasn't a lot of other younger dudes, but I really, I really looked up to them.
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And like, I just see Joey, I do shows with Joey all the time.
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So most of my friends I find are like, you know, 40 and up.
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And also just like, there's this for some form of like big brother sort of thing.
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But also when you go through a tragedy that young, like your brain is older.
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Like, I always felt like, um, I was older, um, like in school where like when that happened,
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you know, kids would be like, can I like have a pool party?
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And I'm like, no, like, I want to smoke cigarettes and cry.
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Like, I mean, it's like, it's not that, that like innocence is kind of taken away really
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I'd watch, you know, Burr and Chappelle and, um, you know, Rodney's my favorite.
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So I think that's why I like veered towards laughing a lot.
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You always get pigeonholed as this not sad dude, I think.
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I'm like, I'm for everybody's always like, oh, that guy just.
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I'm like, who is this guy that everybody's talking about?
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You could always tell what pictures of me when I'm little before and after my dad passed
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I feel like you're a, people think you must be like the happiest silly dude ever, but I
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I'll fucking take that bitch right out into a fucking interstate.
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Do you ever play truth or, not truth or dare, but like a kind of Russian roulette with
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yourself where you're like, if I die this way, I'm supposed to.
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Like where I got a motorcycle for a little bit.
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So, so it was kind of like a, if I go this way, like I don't, I was young and I was like,
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But then I didn't realize like you can get in a motorcycle accident and it not be your
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Like I didn't realize you can get hit by other cars.
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You're just like, I, it's all in my control, but some dude, some dude clipped me and then
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It was pretty mid, but I was like, oh, you could be enough.
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I've had a girlfriend before where I've been like, I like, I knew I should leave her,
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but I'm like, I'm not leaving her because she'll find somebody that actually likes her.
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That's how fucking much I was like miserable, dude.
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One of my rebuttals to a girl leaving me was like, you've done so much work.
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Like, it's like, you got me ready for someone else.
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Because now I'm just going to be all this good with someone else.
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Did you ever get that bad off with your emotions, or were you always able to have some awareness,
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Uh, I've, I've, I'm good now, but I've, I used to dip in, in that.
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I was very like, um, growing up, I, I wanted to die to be with my dad.
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I want to, so I tried to, this is so fucking embarrassing, but I get what I said really
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But I, I like, I tried my first time when I was like eight, I tried to like drown myself.
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And then my mom, like, this is so dark, but like found me in the pool seeing what I was
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And then she took me to like a, a psych ward when I was like eight.
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And then I kind of got out of it, uh, when I first started, I would say right around when
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I got SNL, um, uh, cause I didn't have many friends growing up and it was, it was my fault.
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Like I've said this before where like I was suffering and I was super weird and I was like,
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uh, you know, very visibly hurting, but you know, kids don't know that that's what you're
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Like they don't have this scope of, did you feel like a lot of like, were like thoughts
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and stuff were trapped inside of you kind of, or what did you feel like you think?
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Yeah, it was like on a hamster wheel of just like I have, cause I have OCD and, uh, you
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And then you start doing drugs and it's like, good luck, you know, you're a fucking slot
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Um, and then, uh, I w I would like revert to that, uh, when I got sad, but then when I
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started doing standup, I kind of was like, uh, I found like a group of weird friends and
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like, uh, artists are cool and they, they understand like sadness and like a lot of
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them are like, um, you know, not afraid to talk about that stuff.
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And I, I really like, uh, I was like, Oh yeah, you know, and, and then, um, there's
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I don't know if you've really had this cause I know everybody just fucking loves you as
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But I had this thing where like, I came out and everyone really rallied behind me and was
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like, Oh, this kid, they look what happened to him when he's a kid and now he's doing
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And it was like all going up and then it flipped and then it was like, fuck this dude.
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And like, we're in the internet age, so I'm reading all that shit.
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And then it brought me back to like childhood high school, like not fitting in, like again,
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And then that's where I started like doing drugs.
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And then, uh, a year and a half ago, I was like, I was just like, I need to want to,
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I don't know if I could every, like, even though I feel like I am, I don't, if there's a big
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part of me, the truth is I don't know how I would feel if I didn't have somebody else's
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It's like, uh, if I didn't have how somebody else felt about me to base it on.
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Like when I go outside, take a picture, like, you know, and then it, even if you call me
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a or whatever, we can bleep that out or we can just say that he said it.
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But, uh, anyway, at least that's like, in the, in the context, that makes sense.
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Only if it's during pride month and you mistook me for one of your best.
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But, but yeah, you can't, uh, but that's a hard, that's a hard thing to, you're undoing
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It was like, you know, 25 years of people pleasing and that's why I live, you know?
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So I had to like learn how to be okay with this.
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And like, also like a year, year and a half ago, like they were like, it's over, he's
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It was just like, there was like articles that were like, I smoke crack and live with
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And I was like, I was like, all right, like, it'd be part of that.
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It sucks when there's like four things in the article that are wrong, but there's more
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And you're like, actually, yeah, that's fucking kind of true.
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But you know, and I'm in rehab alone reading this, you know, and a lot of my friends, you
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know, I would say I still have half of them, but a lot of them, it got to a point with my
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use and like how I was behaving where they were just like, I love you, but like, I, this
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And when that started happening, it was started happening with people where I was like, well,
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And then it started happening with like people I really cared about.
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And then, you know, that, that was kind of it for me.
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You know, where I'm, where I'm just like, I need to leave.
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Or were you just like, I'm going to go definitely get some help.
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Like, or was there like one conversation that kind of cemented it for you?
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Once you start to see like, man, oh, that person is stepping away from me.
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You want to make it match kind of how you feel on the inside.
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It's like, that's exactly what you want to leave me because I left me so long.
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In my mind, everybody left me so fucking long ago that I want, I don't, if you, the fact
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that you're even still around here fucking makes me not even respect you, you know?
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And there's part of you that's probably like, for me, I was like calling bluffs almost where
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I was just like, I, I, I self-sabotage blow up.
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Anybody that's ever actually loved me or cared about me has gotten the worst wrath from me.
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You know, it's few and far between, but when it happens, it's fucked up.
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And, but this whole like, fuck you, leave me, like get ahead, leave me.
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And I was like, oh shit, you're calling my bluff and I love you and I don't want you to
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And then you go into therapy and you're like fear of abandonment.
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There's, this is why from your childhood, you, you did this and your grandpa did this
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But yeah, it got to that point where people I really fucking loved.
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And also my mom, you know, my mom's the most supportive person in the world.
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They met each other in grammar school, like super Staten Island.
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She never dated after my mom, after my dad died, just raised me and my sister like alone
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and worked hard and she's been the most supportive ever.
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And it got to a point where she, she called me, uh, when I was, uh, when I was in rehab
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and she was like, my biggest fear is that I will turn on the news and see that my son
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And she's never been like that, like, you know, cause she's so supportive and just, you know,
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So like, I was like, all right, you know, can't die until she's dead at least.
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Like when that lady, when that lady says that to you, look at that lady.
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I mean, how are you going to be like, I'd have to be a heartless fucking sociopath to
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I have a really like supportive, uh, cool family that has never asked me for anything
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Can you imagine being one of my family members?
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Like I have, uh, but I've, I've offered to, I've offered to help and they just, they're
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Like they, they don't want you to be like, oh, cause I'm always like, all right.
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But they want you to be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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I think I, even just saying that makes me think I got to help out my family a little bit
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I only met him one time and I think he looked so clean.
00:32:54.360
He's, I don't know anyone that doesn't like, you know, when you're like intimidated
00:32:58.120
or not intimidated, but just, you're just like, I don't think me and that dude
00:33:01.380
And then you're like, Oh, we love comedy and we're comics.
00:33:07.360
And it's also fun to hang out with someone that's like polar opposite in most
00:33:17.660
I was like, we have golf clubs in Staten Island.
00:33:21.680
So, um, and you're out there doing tours of the Gilgo beach killer area.
00:33:30.920
Even the theaters, he does have like really nice names.
00:33:33.840
Like I'll look at his tour and I'm like, that sounds nice.
00:33:41.840
Putting you out there and fucking, you're doing a amphitheater out there at the Gilgo
00:33:59.660
You got a rebate from the, uh, from the, uh, port authority on that one.
00:34:07.280
That's the dude that was killing all the hookers, man.
00:34:16.220
I probably got to go to a place soon and just get some away.
00:34:20.340
I think I've just, I just can't, everything's just been, I can barely kind of keep it together
00:34:25.660
Well, you're also one of the most busy people in the world.
00:34:28.400
I mean, you have like the biggest show out there and, but I don't know if you had this,
00:34:33.300
you have this feeling where you're like, well, if I go away, it'll all stop.
00:34:37.980
I just think it's all, everything will be fall apart or I don't know.
00:34:41.800
And like, I think when you work a lot, you don't have time to be like, what am I upset
00:34:48.280
Like, uh, you could take as much fucking time as you like and you deserve it.
00:34:52.680
You deserve a nice little kickback, relax, do something that like makes you happy.
00:34:59.620
Well, I think some of it's funny that I'll, thank you though for saying some of that stuff.
00:35:05.460
It's hard for me to like get that into my system, you know?
00:35:09.340
I think like, you know, I'm kind of married to work.
00:35:12.620
Like sometimes I think about like, I had this girlfriend, this really great girl that
00:35:17.000
And I don't know if we're supposed to stay together or not, but sometimes when I think
00:35:19.940
about life or certain things, she's kind of the one that I miss.
00:35:23.240
It doesn't mean we're supposed to stay together, but there was still like a good, good enough
00:35:27.540
connection that was very real that it was like, man, that's her affection is what I miss.
00:35:35.280
Um, but I were, I could see myself, we'd go out and do stuff and then we'd come back
00:35:41.020
home and I could see how she would see me across the room.
00:35:43.720
I'd sit down, I'd put my computer on my lap and just start working.
00:35:46.620
Like, doesn't matter if I had 33 seconds, it always went to that, you know?
00:35:50.620
And just, just like a couple of months ago, I started thinking, oh man, that's what she
00:35:56.600
It's just someone looking up at someone just not there.
00:36:00.100
But, but you are there, but you're just, this is your comfort, right?
00:36:12.640
It's all, it, there's no room for any, I mean, there's room for other people in here
00:36:16.680
really, but it's definitely, you know, it's just, you put in,
00:36:21.800
Um, but so I don't know, like, yeah, I think that's something like, just like
00:36:25.920
that addiction to work, but then I'm getting older.
00:36:30.020
And you're like, well, I don't know how that's going to happen unless I do
00:36:33.500
And so, um, that's where I'm like, I gotta, I think I gotta just, you know,
00:36:41.660
This year, this year, this year has been a little, a little, I've had a couple
00:36:45.920
This past year has been the toughest year that I've had in a while.
00:36:50.980
But, but like, this is like, you know, drugs for me and smoking weed and,
00:36:57.280
you know, that, that was like, those were my friends.
00:36:59.600
I never did it to go party or like, I was never like, Hey, let's like go
00:37:10.400
When you get rid of your friends, it's like, what's left.
00:37:18.640
Like, I, your body needs to appreciate the friends you just let go.
00:37:25.180
You know, it's, it's, if you let go of too many things at once, like it, it's not good
00:37:29.920
Um, so it's like, I don't know if that's how it is with you, but like, it's hard to have
00:37:33.460
a healthy relationship with like, like my reliabilities right now are like working zin
00:37:38.860
and like working out and taking care of my girl and like hanging out with her.
00:37:45.200
Like if you pull one of those with, it's like three left, you know, I used to have eight
00:37:53.940
I think it's like, I do think there's a lot of stuff there where it's like, I don't want
00:37:57.040
to probably see some of it, you know, or I don't really want to feel like if I don't
00:38:02.120
have a, some girl to text or a date to plan or something in the distance or some work
00:38:07.360
thing, like if I took everything away and I was just with myself, how would I feel,
00:38:14.520
And it would probably be fine, but I think it's the fear of what would that be like?
00:38:19.820
It's that, it's the hurdle, not the other side.
00:38:21.960
A lot of times for me, you know, it's the same thing that comes with like commitment to
00:38:25.840
I had the toughest time committing in relationships.
00:38:28.300
I think it's just, it's probably fine on the other side.
00:38:32.100
It's just fucking stepping over the hurdle sometimes.
00:38:34.720
Do you think you romanticize the fear a little bit as an out where it's just like in your
00:38:39.440
head, you're like, no, this is what it's going to be like.
00:38:41.820
And then there's like a fear of like, I do it and that's not what it's like.
00:38:50.860
Like, do you think like having that set answer of like, well, if I do that, I won't be able
00:38:56.360
to commit or it's going to go wrong or whatever.
00:38:58.160
Like you're preventing yourself from even trying to do it because it probably is what
00:39:06.660
And there's almost like a, not like you, you don't believe in yourself enough.
00:39:13.580
Cause that's a, that's a lot of, a lot of my issues are like that.
00:39:21.200
And then I can, I like, I like prove myself wrong and I'm not who I thought I was.
00:39:25.160
Oh, and that's scary to not be who thought you were.
00:39:28.080
Cause that's the person that I, whoever that person is, whatever there is of them, that's
00:39:33.040
And that's my, and that you're comfortable in that.
00:39:35.700
Even if it's traumatic or you're depressed, like I was so, I'm so afraid to be happy.
00:39:42.600
Dude, there was a time, this was like a year ago.
00:39:48.920
The time like a year ago, I was thinking, uh, if I don't want to feel like, I don't
00:39:56.380
And if I was, I would leave all of these feelings that I've always known so much that
00:40:04.900
And it would be like, I almost didn't even did, man, I don't want to go live like that.
00:40:09.020
Cause I'll desert these, whether they're lies or truths, whatever they are, they're
00:40:14.420
probably all in somewhat of cloaks or masks, but I don't want to desert them.
00:40:18.460
I'm so used to being at this party with this other small group of fucking lonely, perverted,
00:40:25.200
gambling a little, but you know, that group that I don't even want to go over there, but
00:40:32.380
So I, yeah, I think there's a lot, there's probably just the fact of even taking time away
00:40:35.740
to sit and have conversations like this or to be in environments where I'm not, uh,
00:40:40.900
like regulating how I feel with Celsius, which the Amish are using now I've heard.
00:40:49.060
I don't know if you were recording, but I mentioned before that, that dude was awesome.
00:41:00.720
Dude, we got to send you over there to see that guy.
00:41:05.120
Sometimes like, I don't know when I watched it one, I thought it was really cool.
00:41:10.200
You'll have like an Oscar actor, then an athlete, then like this Amish kid.
00:41:16.040
Um, but it made me like appreciative for like what I get to do and what we get to do and
00:41:24.620
When he was just like stoked to like getting a Corvette with like two chicks and he's
00:41:39.680
Like, and like the one, I thought he was adorable.
00:41:43.960
And like a very honest and earnest, but I also was just like, man, I got to start,
00:41:52.480
I think a lot of that just comes into gratitude, you know, and having that, if we can mask,
00:41:56.620
if we can just try to get that as part of our days, you know, I struggle with that,
00:42:02.840
Like you're operating at such a crazy level, dude, you're interviewing the fucking president.
00:42:07.320
Like you get to do shit, uh, every day that is someone's like, if I get to do that once
00:42:21.460
I mean, at least you got to date a lot of beautiful women.
00:42:23.740
I got stuck just interviewing the president, this Amish kid.
00:42:41.200
One of my favorite things is I was like, see, do you ever listen to music?
00:42:43.620
He's like, well, we, we do three hymns every day when we get to school.
00:42:46.380
He goes, he was, but every now and then we'll sneak off and listen to some deaf leopard.
00:43:06.340
I haven't heard of deaf leopard since Joe Dirt.
00:43:15.220
And he said they listened to some Morgan Wallen.
00:43:23.520
But also, wait, before you do, the guy on the left in this photo, is that not Bruce Springsteen?
00:43:38.200
I know he's in deaf leopard, but that's Bruce Springsteen.
00:43:47.520
Oh, now it's not as much, but it looked like him for a second.
00:43:51.000
There's David Hasselhoff over there on the right.
00:43:55.080
Do you have footage of him listening to Gunna, dude?
00:44:00.960
You know, what's one of the funny things is Morgan Wallen and I were texting and he's
00:44:04.400
like, man, I think what if that kid did that walk out with me at my concert?
00:44:10.780
He was going to maybe he I think it was I think it was being considered for Canada.
00:44:16.900
But they don't get the Amish don't get identification.
00:44:33.140
I'm going to get him to come back another time and get a little bit more in depth with
00:45:10.640
So he can sell his own merch out in the Amish country out of his hat.
00:45:18.480
I know you said in the beginning there's some different sometimes.
00:45:23.680
Is there a lot of Amish songs and dancing as well or no?
00:45:26.660
In our community, there's not really any dancing.
00:45:28.880
There's, like, the only music, songs that are really louder would be, like, German hymns.
00:45:36.140
And sometimes we, like, sneak out on the weekends and stuff.
00:45:50.940
And then also, like, a lot of country, like Garth Brooks.
00:45:57.080
We also listen to, like, a little bit of rap stuff.
00:45:59.280
Like, Amish Paradise is, that's a pretty good song.
00:46:09.780
Amish Paradise, that's a pretty, I love that song.
00:46:14.600
He looks a little bit mad there, but it was a pretty good song.
00:46:17.940
It's like me liking a song that just is called 9-11.
00:46:20.960
And then, also, like, I like to listen to a little bit of, like, rap stuff, too.
00:46:29.560
Like, uh, like, I don't really listen to what he says.
00:46:32.220
I looked at the lyrics, like, a couple times, and, like, there are, there's, the lyrics
00:46:49.080
Even you saying that about him, it's like, anyone I think about, like, the worst thing,
00:46:54.440
I think, is, like, about drugs, addiction, that sort of thing.
00:46:59.720
And it could be, like, I'm in, like, group, like, SLAA.
00:47:02.880
Like, I'm in all, like, I'm in a lot of different groups, you know, like, intimacy disorder
00:47:06.440
type shit, like, connectivity disorder, you know, like, which probably some of it stems
00:47:13.040
from just, like, watching porn and growing up like that.
00:47:14.800
But any addiction stuff, it takes you away from, like, just good moments in life, right?
00:47:21.080
It takes you away from, like, the mornings where you get to meet up and meet with a friend
00:47:25.080
for coffee, or you get to work out and feel good about yourself walking out, or you get
00:47:29.220
to text a friend in the morning and say, hey, have a great day, right?
00:47:31.920
Or you get to sit with somebody like that who's just figuring out the world.
00:47:35.020
And you're like, don't jerk off, don't jerk off, don't jerk off, don't jerk off.
00:47:38.300
And then you jerk off, and then you can go hang out with yourself.
00:47:42.760
When you feel like everybody knows you've been jerking off.
00:47:46.640
It's like smoking weed where you're like, everyone knows I'm high.
00:47:52.480
Do you keep up with it when, are you more into the meetings and stuff when you're like,
00:48:00.500
Or do you do it both regularly and when you're like?
00:48:04.020
Oh, if I'm having tough times or not having tough times, I'm always to go to meetings.
00:48:08.380
Meetings have always been kind of a thing for me, I think.
00:48:12.300
Do you have a, do you have, I'm sure, I don't know if you feel this way, but sometimes
00:48:15.960
you're in a meeting and you're like, some of these dudes just like to talk.
00:48:20.760
You know, where you're like, oh, this guy's here.
00:48:23.480
And he's going to tell that story, and it's so long.
00:48:27.200
And it means so much to him, and it's pretty mid compared to anything I've ever done.
00:48:32.500
It's not, it's not to diminish his stuff, but like, yeah, there's some meet, there's
00:48:37.100
some meeting like warriors where you're like, okay.
00:48:41.600
One dude would play that song, This Little Light of Mine.
00:48:44.000
Have you ever heard that during his shares or whatever?
00:48:47.880
This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine.
00:48:50.760
But he would put that really low on his phone while he would share at a meeting, dude, and
00:48:57.520
So some of that shit was crazy, but then that's when I'm recognized, oh, I have, I'm
00:49:01.480
impatient with people, and this is a practice for me to just sit here and be patient.
00:49:17.160
I don't want you to think you're acting out of character, like, I need to be a better person.
00:49:22.800
And sometimes he would even do the city can't hold us, whatever that song is.
00:49:49.380
And that's why I'm probably not in a, probably why I'm not, I have not in a relationship.
00:49:53.140
I'm just impatient, you know, or like those types of things, you know?
00:50:41.780
Because I imagine it just looks like a Back to the Future 3 set.
00:50:57.540
He gave a tour of his house the other day, somebody said, when his parents were out.
00:51:00.960
Not out of town, but they were in another district.
00:51:13.620
Once you started to feel better, did that create a space for you?
00:51:36.460
Do you think you'd have been able to get there if you didn't get into sobriety or those
00:51:40.840
sort of things or get into the recovery, like that sort of environment?
00:51:44.320
Like, did that adjust any of the way that you were, like, thinking about having a family
00:51:59.680
I wouldn't know, but I wish I had more time of sobriety because it's only been, like,
00:52:09.860
But I'm very grateful that it happened now and with the person with Elsie because, you
00:52:17.400
know, in other relationships or when I was, you know, I was a drug addict and, you know,
00:52:32.580
Like, all my aunts and uncles got married at, like, 21.
00:52:49.140
A couple skin grafts and then we're having one.
00:53:03.640
But there was no fucking way that that was possible.
00:53:08.760
And I almost think that's why it didn't happen because I was like, I need to do this.
00:53:14.380
And, you know, no one wanted to do that with me.
00:53:26.820
I stopped dating and I was like, I need to fucking get better.
00:53:33.540
And I need to, like, be in a place where I could even have a healthy relationship.
00:53:44.920
First of all, it's a lot of pressure on your partner.
00:53:49.240
And you're, like, kind of setting yourself up for failure.
00:53:52.100
And it's like, you know, that was just, like, my whole upbringing was, like, that's how it works.
00:53:57.660
So I think it was, like, kind of backwards for me, especially in this business.
00:54:06.480
When you're growing up in a small town, it's like, there's these four girls you could pick from.
00:54:10.700
Like, this is who I went to school with, you know?
00:54:18.260
And I wasn't looking for a relationship or looking to, you know, obviously I wanted to,
00:54:31.520
And just, it's, yeah, I'm fucking excited, dude.
00:54:35.440
And it's also, like, selfishly, like, I get to be unselfish.
00:54:39.320
Like, I'm not the focal point of my life anymore.
00:54:55.560
I was just, I was just, I would be, like, yeah, I'd fucking, I'd be annoyed, too.
00:54:59.580
Like, I didn't like how, I didn't think that's how I was.
00:55:03.580
And I think anybody that knows me knows that's not.
00:55:06.800
But I think there's, you see people's faces so much.
00:55:09.460
I just think, like, that's even how I feel, dude.
00:55:19.240
Like, you know, I'm amazed by people who could, you know,
00:55:23.380
who are super famous and do amazing work that just, like,
00:55:31.960
these two guys hung out or he went to a Knicks game.
00:55:34.660
It's, like, I'm so envious of people that are able to, you know,
00:55:43.160
It's tough because they need shit to write about all day
00:55:46.220
because our minds are so, you know, every two hours you forget
00:55:53.600
It's tougher to be, like, someone's going to be,
00:56:06.680
Remember, the only things we knew were Richard Gere was, you know,
00:56:13.640
But then you see one of his movies and you're like, I don't care.
00:56:22.120
Hey, I'll even watch him do a little Dr. Doolittle.
00:56:26.320
Bro, that would have been a great sketch, dude.
00:56:29.840
If he just owned it, I bet he would have been able to beat that
00:56:38.800
That's so, like, that's one of, there's so many stories where I'm just like,
00:56:46.760
Like, Ron Stewart drank so much cum, his stomach needs to be pumped.
00:56:55.080
But when you're in high school, you're like, oh, yeah, fucking idiot.
00:56:58.500
And then you're like 30 and you're like, that's not even possible, man.
00:57:03.520
Yeah, there's no amount of cum in the world that you could.
00:57:10.800
Like, if you had a lot, it looks like, I don't know.
00:57:22.440
And now it has microplastics in it, a lot of it.
00:57:35.680
You know, I can't keep a plant alive at the moment.
00:57:37.940
But when I am home, my bedroom is like my sanctuary.
00:57:50.920
I mean, I get on that thing and, ooh, baby girl, before I know it, it's morning and I'm
00:57:58.080
In fact, I like mine so much, I got two of them.
00:58:00.780
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So did you think you were able to get over some of that stuff of like,
01:00:04.520
like, did you go to like certain types of therapy that would help you get through the
01:00:09.640
stuff of like, or what did you learn about, I need them for me to feel all right, right?
01:00:14.640
Like, do you think any of that actually adjusted?
01:00:17.520
So like, it got to a point where like, here's the problem with going to therapy for like tabloid
01:00:23.660
They're like, your therapist is like, yeah, I don't know.
01:00:27.380
Like, I don't, you're part of like a very small group of people.
01:00:31.420
And then I would, what really freaked me out was I like, I would call Sandler or like
01:00:35.180
Stiller or like, you know, I was like, Hey, when you, when you were like young and
01:00:48.800
And, um, like when you call the goats and the big, big dogs and they're like, I don't
01:00:55.740
So it became a, like, it got to the point where I like, wouldn't go outside and like
01:01:01.140
I would stay inside and then these articles would keep coming up and like, it's always
01:01:05.120
like a source close to be, and I'm like, I don't even have friends anymore.
01:01:10.940
And then it got to a point where I was just like, I am not doing anything.
01:01:16.940
Whether I am happy or go out or not, this is still going to happen.
01:01:26.700
And then what really helped me was I would put someone else's name in the title of the
01:01:33.060
You know, I'd be like, you know, so-and-so like Hugh Jackman, so-and-so, so-and-so.
01:01:38.120
You know, but when it's you, you're like, everybody's reading this.
01:01:41.520
Everybody, when they look at me, this is what they think.
01:01:47.660
No one, literally no one reads that shit except for like people in our shit.
01:01:52.320
And the people that write it and the people that still give a fuck about like you're like
01:01:56.820
Like they just like want to see you do the thing they like that you do.
01:02:00.360
Like they want to see you in a movie or they want like no one's like fucking no one has
01:02:05.100
But we're in this like bubble where it's like we think all this shit is like matters.
01:02:10.300
Well, I think that's a scary thing about Hollywood.
01:02:11.900
Scary thing that always kind of scared me about Hollywood and that sort of environment is
01:02:15.140
it feels like they build you up and then they can all it's this cycle, right?
01:02:19.700
And it feels like it's dirty, but it's just the most opportune cycle.
01:02:35.920
And that guy fucking Ari Aster is just fucking.
01:02:40.560
He just makes shit where I'm just like, I would never be able to think like that.
01:02:43.140
You know, but everyone was like, he's worked so hard and, you know, has been a struggling
01:02:58.100
And then a year later, he's like in everything now because he's hot and big and everyone's
01:03:09.940
It's also just like, you got to give someone time to adjust to that new level of fame.
01:03:14.840
Like, you know, he's been banging at it for 30 years and now he's like, he he's learning
01:03:21.120
how to go get a cup of coffee or like deal with someone that like taps you on the shoulder
01:03:24.840
where you have your earbuds in and freaks you out.
01:03:26.800
Like, God, give that guy a fucking second to like adjust.
01:03:32.940
They're going to do it with Walton Goggins will be next.
01:03:36.340
You know, it's like we build everybody up and now it's so fast.
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It's within months where you're like, what the fuck happened?
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Out here drinking homogenized milk, I've heard.
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Even like the, you know, like I know it's different, but like the thing with that Hawk
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She was kind of hypothetically BJ, BJing a man or something on the interview.
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And then they got her into a meme coin or something.
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She was like this sweet girl that's like, everyone fell in love with her because like,
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she's like, you know, kind of normal and like, just cares about pets.
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And everyone's like, this girl is actually cool.
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Then does like one thing that didn't go the way everybody wanted it to.
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And like, she doesn't know how to fucking run crypto.
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If I can't hold it physically, like I don't fuck with it.
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Like this girl, this is who you're going to, everything going on in the world and fuck this
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I mean, people are just, I laughed, you know, this is the enemy.
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But I think it's, I think as if you can get on the right side of your own self, right?
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Then you can be in control or you can at least have some awareness.
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And that's where I think like the value is these days is the relationship you can have
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And just understanding of what's going on, that this is how it is.
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And so let me be in control of myself and not just at the whims of how do other people
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Just all these little things of, you know, like all these addictive thing, you know, it's
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like if the more you can get control over yourself, the better chance you have, you
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There's also a part of you though, that has to go through it to understand a little bit.
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Like I was also super judgy, like growing up, like fuck that dude.
01:05:52.200
You remember when Christian Bale like yelled at that dude on the Terminator set?
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So I was like 12 years old when that audio came out.
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And I remember hearing that and being, I was 12, I was like, what an asshole.
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I was like, what the fuck did that lighting guy do?
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To make Christian Bale so mad that he even knew who he was.
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Like, and then you, and then I did some digging and it's like, the guy was in the shot.
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He was on his phone and Christian Bale was trying to cry to a Terminator.
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He's a 35 year old man trying to cry to a robot.
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These days it's easy, but this is 20 years old.
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Like he's trying to cry halfway through a bad movie.
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And there's a lighting guy fucking around in a shot.
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There's no way to win the thing where everybody likes you.
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And we don't know what people are going through.
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You don't know what Christian Bale is going through.
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It's also just like, I remember, you know, before it sounds shady to say, but before you're
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at a certain level or in this thing, like, I remember I just be like, wow, that guy's
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Like you see like a video of someone being like, Hey, can I take a picture of it?
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And they're like, Hey man, I'm like eating or like whatever.
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And it's like, maybe that guy's like fighting with someone or like, maybe he's having a bad
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Maybe his grandpa is sick or maybe he's just fucking hung over or there's so many reasons.
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Like think about how you feel every day, you know?
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So we're just so quick to be like, Oh, that guy's a fucking asshole.
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Maybe it's one of those, those things that are supposed to be working out your abs on.
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Oh, so the tour, let me find out the dates you're going on too.
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And I'm just glad to think, think about some of this stuff.
01:08:16.760
When you walked in, I could see a whole different light in your eyes just overall, you know,
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I just, but I see it in a lot of sober guys, you know, you see guys that just like, they're
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feeling good, you know, and it's, I appreciate that.
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And you've always been advertising so kind to me and awesome.
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Like throughout, I've, I've, I don't know if you remember, but I remember you used to live
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We used to run into you all the time at the improv.
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And I, as I was a kid and getting older and you were always so, so kind and cool.
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And especially at times where, uh, certain people weren't or like the, the popular thing
01:08:56.680
I know my friend Simon Rex thinks so highly of you.
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One night he saw me do a set at the last factor and he tweeted about it.
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And it was like the first person that was like, like, I love Simon's sense of what's
01:09:21.540
Just like, he was like, this guy's act is cool.
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And that was like, it's still one of the highlights of my whole life.
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And then, um, yeah, I knew you guys have spent some time together over the years.
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That's the first movie premiere I ever went to was to see his red, to see, well, I guess
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I hope it's a, it's an actor wiener or whatever.
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But I don't care if it's a damn woman's wiener that we're paying for.
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And also just like, uh, you know, when he got, I remember I cried when, uh, he got that
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Like, is it, you, like it, you know, you see actors that are at the top of their game
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or, you know, very wealthy or, you know, you know, not saying Simon's not, I'm just
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saying like, you see people were kind of used to that sort of reception and it was like
01:10:29.520
the most honest, if you guys are at home, watch Simon Rex win an Indy spirit award.
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And like, you know, he's awesome and stuff, but like, you know, he, he was kind of in,
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He would self-admittedly say like people, not, not that people didn't take him seriously.
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He felt like even a silly goose fucking can, uh, is full of golden eggs.
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No, he's a really nice guy, but Sean Baker saw, like just saw the magic in him.
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Well, the Florida project was way too fucking long too.
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I'll say that Sean Baker and I'll say that shit with my chest.
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Thank you, Film Independent, for recognizing my fake penis.
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When I could not get a call back for a Geico commercial.
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And he decided to give me a shot and I didn't want to let him down.
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I moved out to Joshua Tree and said, maybe it's all over.
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And all of a sudden I get a phone call out of the blue from Sean.
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And he called me and said, look, do you trust me?
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And he said, you're not going to make any money.
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And we made something special on a very low budget with a 10-person crew.
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I want to thank everybody from the crew of the film.
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Everyone in the cast, Susanna Saund, my co-star.
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I want to thank Brie Elrod, my other co-star in the Love Triangle.
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Every local actor from Texas who was a first-time actor, they blew me away.
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This was like one of those magical things that happens once in a lifetime.
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So also, you know, thank you to Film Independent.
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At the end, he just goes, I don't give a fuck anymore.
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And all I want to do, I don't care about fame or money.
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And it's not about anything except doing good work.
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I just want to continue to surprise people and do good work.
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This movie was made for a million dollars with a 10% crew.
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It's like, okay, then I'll let these two parts of it connect.
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And he's like, you know, he dates back fucking.
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Yeah, he was like, I was hanging out with someone.
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Where he's just like, you're like, what are you, dude?
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Some of his ex-girlfriends have even passed away, dude.
01:15:10.220
A couple things you're excited about, about having a child.
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But just like, super stoked to give this kid a happy childhood and be reliable.
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I know I'm not a dad, but I'm going to be, but like, I assume, I just want my kid to
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not have the same troubles I had and fears and insecurities and just like, just be there.
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Just like, be there and be like a solid, like rock, you know?
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Yeah, she's going to get to do cool mom shit, you know, and, you know, scream.
01:16:09.740
You're doing one of those Yes We Can tattoos right there?
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Because now Halloween will be cool and not like sad, you know, that we're all being whores
01:16:21.460
Yeah, you're out there slurping some chick's crotch for a snicker or whatever.
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And then after you're done slurping, she's like, I don't even have Snickers.
01:16:46.780
My mom would have this kid with me if she could.
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My mom has been fucking starved for a grandchild.
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She's already, she's talking to my girl's belly being like, I'm Amy.
01:17:03.720
That sounds a little cultural appropriation as well, a little bit.
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It's also, it's, it's sweet because I feel guilty about my mom giving up dating and just
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having a life in general to raise me and my sister alone.
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And I didn't realize it until I got older, like, oh shit, like she was kind of the goat.
01:17:25.480
And I feel like since me and my sister moved out and we're getting older, like she's, she's
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kind of, I don't want to talk in any sort of way about, but I feel like she's kind of
01:17:35.140
bored and a little lonely because I've, I've been like, you should date.
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And I'm like, oh, they don't make you, you anymore.
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And I just, I'm, I'm very excited to, for her to have not purpose, but just like to be
01:17:50.920
excited about something and like, yeah, baby something, you know, and raise, raise something.
01:17:57.480
So I'm, I'm, I'm really excited to see, see her in that, in that grandma role.
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I'm also like, uh, we're, we're, I don't know if you have a huge family, but my, I have
01:18:17.080
six aunts and uncles and they all have three, four kids.
01:18:20.940
And I was like, I was first in the paint to have a kid.
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So I'm, so this baby's going to get all the love because it's first.
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I was just thinking real fast about, um, that's a good movie, man.
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God, I saw that the other, I saw it like a couple of weeks ago.
01:18:58.680
It makes me think of you whenever I see it, bro.
01:19:01.280
Yo, I've been waiting to talk frequency with someone my entire life.
01:19:05.020
So I love that movie so much for obvious reasons, but here's, what's really funny.
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So it's 2002 and my grandma for Christmas got me the frequency VHS or DVD.
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And she was like, you're going to love this movie.
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And I watched it and I was just like, why would she give this to me?
01:19:29.120
Like it was not a movie at like eight years old, six months after my dad died that I was
01:19:36.000
like prepared to see, but it's literally the Pete Davidson fantasy.
01:19:40.100
So guys, you got a Jim Caviezel is, uh, uh, is fucking in the present and he's 30 years
01:19:48.060
old and his dad's dead and he was a fireman and his dad died like 20, 30 years ago or whatever.
01:19:54.760
And, uh, he gets this old CB radio and there's this weird thing going on in the sky and he
01:19:59.980
just like plugs it in one night cause he's sad.
01:20:02.100
And then his dad is on the other side 20 years ago talking, they talk to each other and
01:20:06.940
they solve a crime and they fucking, and he comes back at the end and he changes the
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That's like, sometimes I'll be on eBay and I'll be like CB radio working, working, not
01:20:32.600
I don't want a project, but yeah, it's my fantasy right there.
01:20:38.940
You know, I've been seeing like, they're making like the show about nine 11 and I'm
01:20:49.340
The power of, uh, but it's the power of filmmaking and stuff, man, this movie filled in little
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spots for, I think anybody who is, who's, who had a father, didn't have a file.
01:21:00.240
And I think that's what art does for, for people, man.
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I think you're going to be able to do a lot of that for people in the future.
01:21:08.100
You ever have a, do you have a movie like that where you're like, this is about me.
01:21:16.380
With Nicholas Cage at holiday movie, the Christmas movie.
01:21:18.760
And I don't even know why, but that's like the, and then a league of their own about lesbianism
01:21:29.460
It's about seal team six, taking out Osama Bin Laden.
01:21:36.080
But this one thing that I did, I saw Dennis Craig one time and I said, man, frequency
01:21:42.980
And he goes, he goes, it's one of my favorite movies.
01:21:44.920
Dude, see, I told him at the Montreal comedy festival.
01:21:50.040
And I ran into him and I was like, Hey, like I had like tears in my eyes.
01:21:54.360
But then he was like, Hey man, I love that movie too.
01:22:03.220
We were just in that same, you know that, uh, when you lived in LA, you know that like
01:22:08.560
It's just that giant, like that office building.
01:22:12.120
And he just would always be in there at the same time.
01:22:18.100
He actually got in a fight in the parking lot on the way out.
01:22:30.660
It was a, I don't know, it was some sort of a dispute in the parking lot, but it was
01:22:38.240
And Randy Quaid, we almost had him, me and Spade wrote a movie and we almost had Randy
01:22:41.780
Quaid in it, but he couldn't get back into the country.
01:22:46.480
It's a lot of things we're looking to have him on.
01:22:48.080
So maybe he'll come in and talk to us about it.
01:23:02.820
You just slam dunked all over the fucking place.
01:23:10.920
The tour dates, let's say them one more time, Pete, and then we'll get you out of here,
01:23:17.240
And we got Singapore on the 26th of September, Perth on 28th, Melbourne on the 29th, Sydney
01:23:27.760
Then the 3rd, I'm at the Riyadh Saudi Arabia Festival.
01:23:45.420
And then Dublin on the 9th and Belfast on the 10th.
01:24:02.980
Yeah, if I was that country, I would ignore it.
01:24:08.160
It would be like one of those things like, yeah, yeah, we did.
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You're going to be out there inspiring some young child's future.
01:24:32.260
And thanks for just sharing some stuff with us today.
01:24:35.840
And please, if you see the Amish kid alone, again, tell myself it up.
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Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind.